Amateur Career
In the PBL, the amateur counterpart league of the PBA, Meneses first played for Magnolia Ice Cream, then Burger City and finally Swift Hotdogs, where he was tagged as Samboy Lim's successor in the high-wire act department. Vergel more than lived up to that tag. Like Samboy, Vergel was a superb one-on-one player, but unlike Samboy, Vergel proved to be more durable. A year after, in 1989, he was named to the RP Youth Team as well as the 15th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) team that played and finished runner-up at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In 1991, he was also a part of the victorious Philippine Team that played at the 16th SEA Games held in Manila.
In 2000, Meneses was named as part of the PBL's 12 Greatest Legacy Team. In 2003, Meneses was named in the PBL's Top 20 Players list on the occasion of the league's 20th year.
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